Smyrna times., 1887-06-08

Will COmO Oh u6AJ ]
He purposes taking a full
collegiate course, to prepare himself
for the ministry.
THE shoe maker who ran short ofcoal
has again been burning his old leather
scraps, to the distress of all the Olfac-
tory nerves of the neighbOrhOOd.
Wouldn't these scraps serve for mum
ereal purposes a better result all
around, by trading them with some
farmer for a load Of cObs or chips?
FRANK COLLINS near Collins Beach,
who usually commences picking straw
berries about the time the high lands
are getting through, did not ship a berry
until this week, and is not yet in his
best picking His land is especially |
adapted to the Sharpless, and he has
never failed to lead the market in the
largest berries.
WHAT has become of the paper peach |
basket? 1t has been a long time stiff |
ening up. If our basket factories of |
this town can put on the market l ,500,- |
600 baskets by September as is claimed,
with the number of other mills on the
Peninsula turning out all they can, the
paper basket to be a success, will have
to get up earlier in the morning.
B. F. G. ROTHwELL has put up a
large size Adams novelty power wind
mill for pumping water, grinding feed,
saving wood and doing nearly every
thing but the chores and milking the
cows. He is also preparing to intro
duce water pipes in his dwelling, and
by the same power force water to all
parts of the house from the third story
to the kitchen.
DRs. AsHCRAFT & CLIFTON cut a
tumOr from the top of the head of
George Carter, a colOred man of
Thoroughfare Neck, on Sunday. Such
an operation usually requires an anis-
thetic to make the patient insensible to
pain, but he wanted nothing of the
kind, and didn't come as near turning
white or pale, as some of the crowd
who were attracted to witness the
operation.
J. FRANK WILDs, Register of Wills
for Kent county, has granted letters of
| administration on the estate of Joseph
Campbell to Mrs. Margaret Campbell /;
on the estate of James TruaX to James
T. Truax on the estate of r. G. Walker
to HI. G. Walker; on the estate of Ben
jamin D. Burrows, late of Duck Creek
Hundred, to William d. Burrows; on
the estate of Sally A. Ridgely, of East
Dover Hundred, to Hon. Joseph p.
COmegys.
THE weather was against the festival
of the Musical Association last week
and they did not realize as much as
they should have done The hall was
tastefully fitted up, the music was good
and the participants had a pleasant
time, but somehow festivals do not
draw like they used to. The members
of the Association wish to thank
through this medium the ladies who
aided them by donations and so kindly
assisted them at the tables.
ELECTRICITY is coming to the from
, more every day. Electric motors are
displacing steam engines in many o
the western cities, where light pOwel
only is needed. There is no dust OIL
dirt attending these motors, and i
everything is right at the central sta
ton they are always ready to do tn
5 bidding of their masters. We are sur
= prised they haven't been introduces
= more extensively in the eastern cities
e They are less dangerous than stean
and cheaper when all their advantage
are considered.
e A COMMISSION man of Boston write
D to one of our large shippers that $500
= has been lost on the strawberries sen
from the Peninsula to that city beeaus
of the late arrival of the trains. Oh
! memorial day when there was an un
usual demand because it was a holiday
I the train did not get in until min
o'clock, after the most of the marke
supplies Of the day had been purchased
/ There is a talk of combine" amOnl
s the farmers to raise fund to test tn
9 question of paying for a high rate q
D speed which is not given.
BETHEL church on the circuit ha
its Children's Day last Sunday with a.
Y elaborate display of flowers, chief q
: which was a pyramid and large cross
The use of fiddles in the way of musi
= was substituted by two canary birds
t 1t exceeded any former occasion of tn
kind. ServersOn's Sunday school pre-
y, viously announced for the same day
y q was postponed for two weeks so the
y can have more of the time of Rev. Nj
y White, the pastor Kenton and Cen
> trail will have theirs on next Sunday
the regularly appointed day.
AN ex-schOol teacher of cOnsiderabl
experience from contact with yOuthfu
/ gnO ok hn ~
= service Sunday morning didn't entirel
: endorse the idea advanced by Rev. Nj
Robinson that children were NATURAL
truthful and on the whole very muc
g better than they were given credit fo
b But the point between the natural col
l. ditiOn of the child and what by ba
e, family government ard association
Is acquires between the cradle and th
s. school room, is one of such possib
changes that the original can hardl
y be recognized.
d THos. ]. MIDDLETON on the Stat
y road three miles north of Smyrn
10 came near losing his buildings one da
j. last week. Some live Goals that ha
been emptied with the ashes unobser-
~ ed, were blown by the wind into son
y litter which had ignited and W,
~ spreading near the buildings. M
y Middleton and the hands were out
- the field and Mrs. Middleton in the e.
~ citement of the situation and in her G
y fort to give them the alarm ierked Il
rope Of the dinner bell so forcibly as
h cause it to fall, fortunately escapin
ie her, but crushing the fence near her
y its Dissent. Taking the ringing f
le something importunate as II was, M
le M. and his men were soon on the sp,
10 and in time to arrest the flames befo
getting beyond their control.
Ia This is the way the Snow Hill Ne
I'd senger puts It " If you want any fav
:. Ofa newspaper, you strike your hon
lis paper. don't you2-If you want yo
ly town doomed, and your real estate !
n creased thereby in value, you expe
your home paper to do it, don't you
You kick because there is not as mu'
"a news in it as in the Baltimore Sun dor
" you2 But on the whole you think
n newspaper is mighty good thing f
e. a town, don't you? And you preclu,
q, q newspaper from thinking that Il
" town Is good thing for il, By not gi
ing u sufficient advertising, don't yor
he Ana then yon sneak of and get yo
a job work done at some other tow
,et dont your And You are under Ii
he lusp5esaion that editors can liVe
Ter tsl. wlnos % OF De forever digesting the IA